PSYCH-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Feeding Tube, Pain Management, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
8 Dec 2020
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Mortality statistics (categories of age and gender) 15-24 (young) top three causes of death. Unintentional injuries: car accidents, drown, poison ingestion. Unintentional accidents: car accidents is most common. Copd: chronic obstructive coronary disease (bronchitis, emphysema) Control over end of your life (make decisions of what happens to you) Describe how you wanted to be treated if can"t make decision yourself. Supported by federal law: control of life and death. Federal laws, spells out the rights in determining life and death. All institutions that receive federal money go off this policy. Staff, tell you you are allowed to make an advanced directive, right to make decisions about care in advance. Heroic measures : cpr, need to be restored so life continues immediately. Vary state to state: state with what included; all same basic safeguards. Try to build in protection so abuse doesn"t happen- be careful who signs it as they may benefit from the death.
